Re: bbs and usenet

(Other people feel free to help this guy out too but I'll tell him what 
I know!)

 TW> I've been reading the policy4.txt for Fidonet recently trying to 
 TW> get up
 TW> to speed on it in hopes of joining the network there. I have no 
 TW> heard of
 TW> FSXnet before, though. I looked them up and started poking around 
 TW> their
 TW> documentation. It seems a lot more approachable than Fidonet on 
 TW> the
 TW> surface, but as someone with no experience with Fido, their
 TW> documentation left me with more questions than answers about how 
 TW> to
 TW> join. Perhaps someone here can give me a hand with more 
 TW> information?

Look at the nodelist and try to figure out who runs a Fidonet hub close 
to you. Is there someone in your state? If so, go with that person. 
Contact them and tell them that you're running a BBS in the same state 
and would like to get on the Fidonet nodelist AND that you would like 
them to provide you with a feed. They should then add you to the 
nodelist and give you credentials to use for connecting to their hub 
(to download and upload echomail.)

If they insist that you follow the policy4 procedures, then that means 
send them netmail from your BBS to prove that your BBS is capable of 
handling echomail. It's a pain and the documentation for doing that 
sucks.

Let us know where you're at with all that.